Some cards can wait. A deck from last term, a card you are not ready to study or a set you imported and want to hold. Swiftflip can pause reviews without deleting anything.
What pause does
A paused card or deck stays in the library. The schedule stays too. What stops is everything that treats it as due:
- due counts on Home, in widgets and in shortcuts
- Practice Due and other scheduled sessions
- study reminders
Practice Due hides when nothing is due. The card or deck comes back with the same next review when resumed.
Pause a card or a whole deck
Long-press a card or deck on iPhone or iPad, or right-click it on Mac, and choose Pause Reviews. You can pause several selected cards at once. A paused deck shows a pause mark in the library, and its toolbar offers Resume instead of a play icon.
Search has a Paused filter if you need to find what you set aside. See the search guide.
Anki suspended cards stay paused
When an Anki package includes suspended cards, import asks whether to import them or leave them out. Imported suspended cards arrive paused, with their review schedule. The Anki import page covers the rest of the transfer.
Get started
Open a card or deck you are not studying, choose Pause Reviews and confirm it leaves the due count. The guide walks through pause, resume and the search filter.